Motivational Quotes

Courage

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

- Shoemaker, Willie

Best Quotes about Courage

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

13.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.